Deep Listening: The Collaboration Skill Teams Rarely Practise
Most teams agree that listening matters. Far fewer create a situation where people can notice how they actually listen under pressure.
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Applied Improvisation at Work
I write from the improv room and from 25+ years in technology and transformation: practical notes on what teams do when complexity, pressure and other people enter the plan.
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Why “Yes, And” Is More Than Agreeing with Everything
Used carelessly, “Yes, And” sounds like forced positivity. Used well, it is a precise practice for receiving reality and contributing to it.
Read articleCo-Creation Under Uncertainty: What Teams Can Learn from Improvisation
When no one has the complete picture, progress depends less on the perfect individual idea and more on how the group develops partial information together.
Read articleListen for What Matters: A Practical Exercise for Teams
Deep listening becomes useful when people can see and practise it—not when it remains an aspiration on a workshop slide.
Read articleFrom My Idea to Our Idea: Practising Real Co-Creation
A room full of contributions is not yet co-creation. The shift happens when each person makes the developing idea more useful for the next.
Read articleAccept First, Evaluate Second: Keeping Other People’s Ideas Alive
Accepting an idea does not mean approving it. It means understanding and using what was offered before deciding whether it should survive.
Read articleSix Applied Improvisation Books for Work: A Practical Reading Guide
I have read all six. Here is what each book is genuinely useful for, where it is less strong and which one I would choose for a specific workplace need.
Read articleHow to Disagree Without Blocking the Work
Productive disagreement does not require forced positivity. It requires people to receive the proposal, make the risk specific and contribute a next move.
Read articlePractise Recovery, Not Perfection: An Exercise for Teams Under Pressure
Adaptability is not pretending that disruption is easy. It is the ability to name what changed, protect the real objective and make the next safe move together.
Read articleWhen Improvising Is Better Than Planning: Learning from Mistakes at Work
Planning creates direction. Improvisation helps when reality refuses to follow it—and a healthy mistake culture turns surprises into learning before they become expensive.
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